Born in Cleveland on January 29, 1835, Sarah Woolsey enjoyed a vigorous girlhood and early displayed a love for reading and writing stories. She was educated in local private schools and at the Select Family School for Young Ladies in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1855 she moved with her family to New Haven, Connecticut (her uncle, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, was president of Yale). During the Civil War she was active in hospital work. In 1870, after her father╒s death, the family settled in Newport, Rhode Island. By that time Sarah Woolsey had already published a few magazine articles, and, in part through the influence of her close friend Helen Hunt (Jackson), she then began to write in earnest.
Her first book, a collection of stories for girls, appeared as The New-Year╒s Bargain under the pseudonym ╥Susan Coolidge╙ in 1871. She used that name thereafter. Subsequent books included What Katy Did, a novel for girls inspired by her own childhood and the first of a highly popular series, 1872, What Katy did at School, 1873, Mischief╒s Thanksgiving, 1874, Nine Little Goslings, 1875, For Summer Afternoons, 1876, Eyebright, 1879, A Guernsey Lily, 1880, Cross Patch, 1881, A Round Dozen, 1883, A Little Country Girl, 1885, What Katy Did Next, 1886, Clover, 1888, Just Sixteen, 1889, In the High Valley, 1891, The Barberry Bush, 1893, Not Quite Eighteen, 1894, and An Old Convent School in Paris and Other Papers, 1895. The good-natured mischief and high-spirited heroines of her books set them apart from much literature intended for girls of the day and helped them retain their popularity for decades.
She also published three volumes of poetry, Verses, 1880, A Few More Verses, 1889, and Last Verses, published posthumously in 1906; brought out editions of The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, 1879, The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, Mme. d╒Arblay, 1880, and Letters of Jane Austen, 1892; and translated ThÄophile Gautier╒s My Household of Pets, 1882. Sarah Woolsey died in Newport, Rhode Island, on April 9, 1905.
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